Juggling a Cornucopia of Projects

Max is juggling so many hobby projects that it's no wonder his head is spinning like a top.

I feel like I'm juggling a lot of hobby projects at the moment. The problem is that I can’t juggle. Actually, that's not strictly true -- I can juggle ten fine china dinner plates, but only for a very short period of time.

Recently, several people have asked me to point them toward various project-related blogs that they remember reading but couldn't track down again, so I decided to gather the current state of play together as shown below.

My main Pedagogical and Phantasmagorical Inamorata Prognostication Engine blogs are as follows:

Phew! When I see everything listed together like this in one place, I realize why my head is always spinning. I'm almost afraid to mention that -- following my meeting with the Mighty Hamster, I now have the idea for a brand-spanking-new project churning away in my cerebrum.

Well, at least the Infinity Mirror is finished, and the BADASS Display has progressed a lot further than you might suppose. As soon as I finish the BADASS Display, I will be returning full focus to my Inamorata Prognostication Engine project. All I can say is "Watch this space!" Meanwhile, as always, any comments (preferably nice ones) and questions (preferably easy ones) will be much appreciated.

@Tobias: I loved your 3 "crazy" wheel robot and I was hoping to read more (programming, acceleration, ...). Any plans on this ?

Hi Tobias -- the robot is currently on the "back burner" because I have so many other things on the go -- on the other hand, I now have my PIXY computer vision module and pan/tilt stand sitting on my desk calling out to me... plus I have all of the wheels and motors sitting around in my office... As soon as i ger some of my other projects finished, I will return to the robot -- thanks for reminding me

I've got too many as well. The big one is my robot avatar. Rather than progressing, though, it seems to have spun off a number of additional projects. There's my micro-bot (pic.twitter.com/pnP22dJhD3) that was my first pass at 3D printing. My second forray into 3D printing is an axel adaper/wheel hub for the robot avatar (pic.twitter.com/7ZwPgnq2sp).

Max has not only filled his plate, he's added a bit to mine as well. There's the custom Arduino-compatible sensor board. I think I owe him another blog on that subject. The Kickstarter is now sucessfully over, so that's off.

Now, though, I'm trying to back burner a few things and spend most of my time on a custom Arduino-compatible hardware book.

I really want to try out the LEDs on a Papilio that Mike Field just wrote up too. I'd probably have to convert his VHDL to Verilog, though, because I don't know VHDL.

@Wnderer: I guess firing up the kiln is more of winter project than a summer project.

I have the kiln sitting on my back deck (it's a concrete deck and it's covered) so I can fire it up anytime -- the fact that the kiln is running at liquid glass temperatures indide means that variations in the outside temperature are largely immaterial.